Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Nov. 1, I read of the corn crop, "Last year's abnormally short crop of 1,500,000,000 bu. was nearly a billion bushels below average," from which statement I judge that the average yield is approximately 2,500,000,000 bushels. Right? I read on, "This year the estimated crop is a bumper 2,500,000,000 bu. . . ." and I am perplexed. Is this year's crop an average crop or a bumper crop? It can't be both at the same time...
...filed through three apertures in the white curtains at the end of the room, took their places behind the 30-ft. mahogany bench with celerity belying their years (51 to 81). Almost before the crowd had seated itself a summary of the day's first decision was being read...
...figure as Boston's "People's Lawyer." The somewhat prodigious son of a prosperous Louisville grain merchant who had emigrated from Prague in 1848, Louis Brandeis went to Harvard Law School in 1875, in time to hear, at the house of a professor, a paper on education, read in a quavering old man's voice, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. After his graduation, the firm he started with his Classmate Sam Warren prospered brilliantly. By the time he was married at 34 to Alice Goldmark, whose father, a political exile from Vienna, had emigrated in 1848, Louis Brandeis...
...liberals than to their hard-shelled conservative colleagues with whom they were aligned in this week's employe bonus case. Among the Court's current liberal majority, the shadings of viewpoint are subtler. A single opinion, even when it is as eloquent as the one he read this week, by no means reveals Associate Justice Hugo Black's exact philosophical locality. Harlan Fiske Stone, onetime dean of Columbia University Law School and Attorney General under Calvin Coolidge, once reportedly slated (by President Hoover) for the Chief Justiceship that Charles Evans Hughes surprisingly accepted in 1930, was raised...
...colonists, one must deafen himself to the cries of the literary know-alls and listen only to the appeals of practicality and amusement that come from social historians. Once Moses Coit Tyler wrote: "No one who would penetrate to the core of early American literature, and would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root..., may by any means turn away, in lofty literary scorn, from the almanac--most despised, most prolific, most indispensable of books, which every man uses, and no man praises; the very quack, clown, pack-horse, and pariah...